Hey, thanks for all your contributions, you're admin already but I ask you for a vote at wt/loz/Wiktionary:Petulo Bulili. I dearly want you to stay admin even after li.wikiquote is created. SF-Language 14:35, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I almost logged out, you're just on time! --Ooswesthoesbes 14:38, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Which test project was approved the fastest? I think, we completed the requirements two months and 6 days after the proposal (July 30). On November 7 marks one month of wait for language committee's final approval. --Filipinayzd 14:10, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I really don't know. Untill now just few projects really got their subdomain. The new language policy is very difficult. I think 2 months is very fast. --Ooswesthoesbes 14:17, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

It has been 2 weeks since the final approval of Bikol Wikipedia. How long do I have to wait? How long did you wait since the final approval of your wiki before they created it? --Filipinayzd 19:50, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Also bad mail from angry users recieved? We're waiting about say 20 days. Here (scroll down a little bit) they bring a nonsense reason: We've got a lot of those request. Well I can understand that if you don't finish any of them! --Ooswesthoesbes 08:26, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Ooswesthoesbes. You are a test administrator for Wq/li. Now that the new site is created, you will be desysopped here (after moving to the new site), but if you want to, you can become an administrator on the new site. You can leave a note on my talk page to confirm this and do not forget to say which username on the new site (so which user has to be sysopped - probably the same username). Greetings, SPQRobin 11:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

En om de langcom te citeren: The proposal has a sufficient number of living native speakers to form a viable community and audience. Misschien is het goed om eerst te vragen of een Middelnederlandse Wikisource wel mag. SPQRobin 13:54, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok, het mag, maar 1) dan moet je wel een gemeenschap met verschillende actieve gebruikers hebben of 2) Where possible, such languages should be bundled with the modern equivalent (such as Old English with English), though that is not requiredSPQRobin 14:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I might speak 50 languages, but unfortunately Alabama is not one of them. Maybe when I've got time I'll try to learn some if it, but it looks very difficult and interesting :) --Ooswesthoesbes 17:45, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Why incubate just "ojb"? Why not the whole "oji"? And why Fiero romanisation with the Freelang modification of " ` " instead of the standard " ' "? And why romanisation instead of syllabics? It would be better if the incubator would have an orthographic converter routine for languages such as "Ojibwe" and "Cree" such that one can switch between orthographies with ease. In addition, when you Ojibwe-ise "Wikipedia" we should end up with wikipiidiyaa (ᐎᐦᑭᐦᐲᑎᔮ) or wigipiidiyaa (ᐎᑭᐦᐲᑎᔮ), not wigipiidjaa. CJLippert 19:04, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your kind help. I have founded this Wt about one year ago and I should like to continue, unfortunately I have no time and our Sardinian colleagues seem to be too busy elswhere. Your interventions are welcome and most helpful. I didn't speak Dutch for more than forty years... Thank you very much - dank U heelmaal - baie dankie (noem maar op...)--Henriku 13:20, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

No problem :) I just saw the Sardinian wikt could use some extra help :) --OWTB 13:22, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I think it is "limburghesu". I am not a native speaker of Sardinian, besides Sardinian has three different dialects. The standard language (Limba sarda comuna) is very close to the Logudorese dialect, but the most of the Sardinian Wikipedians speak Campidanese, which is very different from the standard language. So it happens sometimes we are looking for words or even creating them.

I should like to continue to create this Wt., but this year I am very very short of time. The Sardinians themselves come and leave, the most active ones - El Mexicano, Sarvaturi and myself - are foreigners. But I feel much respect for this archaic language, besides I speak an other minority language (Sorbian of East Germany) and many of my relatives speak Alsatian, so I should like to help.

Next year, if I can help with your Wiktionary, it will be a pleasure for me. Thank you so much for your help. --Henriku 08:33, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you again. I shall try and create at least about two pages a week, let's hope the project will survive... Btw, I see other minorities have the same problems - the Occitan Wiktionary has a very active contributor from Catalonia and an other one from Sicily, the Sorbian Wikipedia is written mostly by two Germans and two Czechs... Best regards, --Henriku 08:54, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I have sent this message to our Occitan friends (in other words, as I am afraid we shall not be able to continue the Sardinian Wiktionary project, I am beginning to introduce Sardinian equivalents to the Occitan Wiktionary, later, I shall try and create separated pages dedicated to Sardinian expressions, I have begun to create the page faeddare, translating templates etc.; in this way I hope to save our Sardinian articles and, maybe, to strengthen a kind of co-operation among at least some minorities):

Hi, tests which are in natural, living languages will not be deleted, even if they are inactive, so your work here will always stay :) --OWTB 10:36, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I know it, but in this moment I have almost no time to continue and some others have given up. I think that a tight co-operation with other minority/minorities is good. In the past I contributed to the Occitan Wt. adding equivalents in Sorbian, Czech and Romanian. Best regards, --Henriku 10:50, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Haj, I deleted it now because it isn't Drents, but I think we can't delete it because it has a valid ISO code, so it should be sufficiently unique to start an own wiki. Also, if they want new projects in the future, they can no longer use the nds-nl prefix. --OWTB 06:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Please see [5], [6] and [7]. According to our official policies we use ISO 639-1 instead of ISO 639-3 when there is one. "hy" is the ISO 639-1 code of "hye", so this code can't be used. --OWTB 09:20, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

No, they should not have been moved. They were wrong and therefore deleted. I'll write something in the deletion log now. --OWTB 05:49, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

So what exactly was wrong e.g. on Wp/Kum/Кумыкская История?And what was wrong of dozens of other deleted pages without filled reason?— Danny B. 10:09, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The were marked with the deletion template and I've checked them all, don't worry. The problem of that page was: noncence, Kumyk wiki has the same table on its main page, Russian and Turkic language, same template. As I already said I will now give the reasons when I delete the page properly. --OWTB 13:43, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. But why would I need to create a userpage? Other wikis seem to be able to have me around without a userpage just fine. I realize that I have not been here long and thus have not had a complete grasp of the rules, but a userpage seems quite unnecessary to me. Secondly, could you please delete this unused category? Thanks again. TeleComNasSprVen 21:10, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for you Welcome text. Actually I don't think, I would spend much time at Wikimedia Incubator, because I'm not going to create a new Language version (de.wikibooks is enough work), but I don't know what the Future will make. Best wishes --Sannaj 18:48, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your help so far ...I really would like to do more for the Greek Wikinews project but I my knowledge of programming languages is not enough. Is there any easy way to create portals and templates for our project ?

Good morning , I created a translation template (actually copied a message box)and it looks fine in the right direcroty here. Then I inserted it in an article that I am editing and it doesn't work [10]. Any idea to solve this?Glavkos 09:02, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

1. Thank you. But Wt/ngy was created by mistake, without test: what is "ngy". Now we (I - User:Winni and User:Kartakaev) tend to work on existing project Wp/nog rather then on Wt/ngy.

2. I placed mediawiki-1.16.2 on my home computer with aim to train about wiki. It work OK and I create articles. But I have one trouble: if I need to insert image to article, where I must place it? Or it is impossible? Mediawiki was unpacked at E:\WebServers\home\wiki\www\ - directory and I write "http://wiki" to Mozilla FireFox when need start it. (I use Denwer3 - http://www.denwer.ru as server application)

Eh.. I think you could better direct this question to another administrator like User:SPQRobin or User:MF-Warburg, because I'm not really into the technical aspects of wikiing :) --OWTB 08:20, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

GLOBAL SUPPORT CAMPAIGN FOR UNITED NATION STATE & UNSTATE CURRENCY[edit]

Ref: 418/11/Z Date:14-05-2012

His Excellency
PRESIDENT UNITED NATION

Sub: Global support campaign for United Nation State & United Nation State currency to be made and expect to send to United Nation Assembly.

The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace throughout global all countries. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries and unsupportive internal conflict within political parties in the countries and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions. Since 1945 united nation headquarter situated in USA. Whole world people and countries of the world sub-sequent studied all passed role and activities of united nation and where united nation situated. It becomes obligatory matter cause all UN decisions comes from USA platform. Let us setup United Nation Headquarter to a democratic country site as proposed Rajshahi Padma riverside, Bangladesh. People of world has to believe united nation make decision from own state and own ideology and fair free judgment authority. United nation state head will be select by the all countries vote in united nation state general assembly. President of united nation general assembly and secretary general of united nation will be head and sub-sequent body of united nation state. Any country may send one name for president & secretary general candidate. All other body of organ-gram same as existing or may change as usual manner. Everybody shy to say united nation depends on contribution from the member country and 22% comes from USA. As record year 2011, so why to give chances of this criticize, this idea studied and developed by engr. Zohaque Ahmed, global logistic engineering consultant and architect of united nation state. concept is no need contribution anymore for united nation. United nation state would run / function from own source of money if united nation state made own currency (UNSC).

Ref: Date:

United nation total budget during 2011 year was 13.9 billion US dollar but united nation state currency (UNSC) about to start budget, 60 billion US dollar during 2011 year. ( Which was calculated from circulation dollar of whole world.) This 46.1 billion dollar become curb money loser by all country and on the other hand member countries contributing united nation for run. This excess united nation state money may use for mankind. United nation state will be sole authority of united nation state currency. Only this currency will circulate for transaction throughout all united nation member country. UN state currency is a highest valued currency which is greater than all countries currency in the world. Start united nation state currency for worldwide trading to meet-up expenditure of united nation. Any countries grant, loan for other country, traveler’s money, etc, should convert united nation state currency. Only this concept becomes peace of world and work like nuclear particle. Let us start to go back US domestic dollar to USA and give us equivalent gold by international law. UN organization is a holding authority of all countries reserve gold for domestic country currency print and United Nation State will print international currency (UNSC) which will circulate throughout world.
Publisher expecting for welcome all united nation countries to support for ahead to united nation assembly. highlight of view, will be persuade throughout all country head of the state by sending special delegation. cost involvement to be expect grant from the government, NGO and well wisher. Grant sending: By western union money transferer in above address with identification (mobile 88-01556320038), western union secret number and letus know by above email. zohaque@yahoo.com, G/486,Sultanabad, Rajshahi -6100, Bangladesh

In this subject I will be glad if you arrange to expedite and to know concept to whole world and ahead to united nation assembly.

Hello MR Ooswesthoesbes
please help us to verification luri lrc,this language has more than 7millions speakers in iran and other countries like oman this is luri lrc requesting pageː https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Lurish
please verify luri lrc language to eligible this language these days has many actions and increase it's articles, and this language has six active writers please help so thanks!!!Mogoeilor (talk) 14:11, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

My dear Ooswesthoesbes, Hi, As a Test Admin of Wp/khw Khowar Wikipedia Project I on behalf of the Khowar language communities of Pakistan, Afghanist, India and Xinjiang(China) humbly request the all respectable members of the language comittee for early approval, creation of Khowar Wkipedia i.e. khw.wikipedia.org. The Khowar language is spoken in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Xingjiang(China). I have created a test page for Khowar language in incubator i.e. Wikipedia Khowar (Khowar Language Wikipedia), On behalf of the abovementioned Khowar speaking four countries for early approval and creation and normalization of Khowar Wikipedia edition. Khowar is one of spoken 14 languages in Chitral(Pakistan). It will be useful to Khowar internet users to report news from worldwide. I strongly feel it deserves its own Wikipedia. Being a test admin i have translated all most used messages into khowar. I have created test Khowar Wikipedia at Khowar Wikpedia.--Raki 05:33, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

I am not a language committee member :) --OWTB (talk) 17:47, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

I suggest you ask the Language committee about the status of Laki Wikipedia. Ask them what you still have to do (f.e. more editors, more pages, etc.). You can contact them on this page. --OWTB (talk) 15:28, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi! The user above is applied to test adminship for Old Russian Wikipedia with the invalid rationale, having only 1 edit in this wiki. Then, after two opposes, mine and Ilya's, he logged out and gave himself support from an IP. His commentaries are meaningfull though. Considering his actions as destructive, can the user be blocked? --Ochilov (talk) 17:22, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

The user probably does not qualify for test adminship due to his short-term involvement with the test project. Therefore, I would simply try to ignore it as much as possible. --OWTB (talk) 13:31, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Here is his new IP. Edits are pretty the same. --Ochilov (talk) 19:30, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi! I am really into Linguistics and Germanic languages and always wanted to learn Limburgish because of tones :) I speak Dutch and German and can understand some Limburgish. Could you recommend some learning resources, please? For example, where I could find some music and series/movies :D I also want to practice Limburgish with you later, if you do not mind :) Thanks in advance --Ochilov (talk) 15:26, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Sure I don't mind. There is not a lot of learning resources available though. Mainly because there is no standardisation. If you are looking for some Limburgish music, you can always try to search for "Sjef Diederen" on YouTube. It's calm music, so you can hear the language well :) --OWTB (talk) 16:04, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi! Please, can you protect my userpage from creation due to vandalism (it is already protected in multiple wikis for the same reason)? Thank you in advance! --Ochilov (talk) 19:59, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

As I said above, talk pages are not to be protected. I suggest you just ignore the messages they put on your talk page, and not revert them either. That way, they will get bored and stop eventually. --OWTB (talk) 11:24, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I noticed you removed a deletion tag from my user talk the other day [16]. You are an admin here, right? I suppose you may not have been aware of the background, but I had actually requested that my page be deleted, or, at a minimum, permanently semiprotected. See my posting here [17]. There don't seem to be very many admins around in this place; at least it seems nobody has had a look at that community page since. Future Perfect at Sunrise (talk) 12:56, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi there - I noticed that you have 100+ edits on the incubator Wikipedia for Araona. We're conducting a research project about Wikipedia in indigenous languages of Latin America. Might you be able to share any information about your role in that incubator project? You can email me at: eddie [at] globalvoices.org

Hello, Can I continue writing in Nahuatl language articles? Now you know that I also have great knowledge about Nahuatl languages and therefore I see no problem in not continuing to write.--Marrovi (talk) 04:49, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Please be patient and await the outcome of the central discussion. --OWTB (talk) 08:49, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

(eavesdropping): The best way to request something like this in the future is to add {{delete}} to the top of the page, including a reason and your signature. (Don't replace what's on the page, just add the template to the top.)

@StevenJ81:Thank you for deleting the first two pages and the advice on using {{delete}}. I have now renamed all the links so that nothing links to the third page.Johnkn63 (talk) 21:15, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

@TajikMaterialist: Hi, the categories I deleted where subcategories of a category with a delete-template. The next time you make fix a spelling mistake, please update all the (empty) categories to reflect the change. --OWTB (talk) 08:15, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

I like how you approached this. And I think we could gather enough info about inactive tests < 5 pages to make a real case for deleting them, which I'd like to do. (It wasn't my first priority. And in general I'm a believer in the concept that if there's some content, why not leave it so that the next person can have a jumping off point. But on the whole I don't think < 5 pages is "content", and if there were really only 3 pages, but they were really good, I'd leave them or archive them.) StevenJ81 (talk) 14:11, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

I personally do not agree with that, but we can discuss that another time. Let's collect the data first :) --OWTB (talk) 14:37, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Do you want to put Wn/li up for approval? (How much does it depend on your involvement, and would you stay that involved in an independent project?)

Wb/map-bms is allowed as a grandfathered code (since map-bms: exists). That said, the only two pages are a home page consisting of a lot of not-created templates and a second page that seems like it's just junk. Want to nominate it for deletion? StevenJ81 (talk) 17:18, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Is it worth tracking down people who worked on Wp/liv? (Maybe User:Romaine could help with that.) On one hand, yes, I'm sure they got frustrated with LangCom's dithering over extinct-but-reviving languages like that. And LangCom still doesn't love such languages. On the other hand, it's marked "eligible", so if it gets active again it can be approved.

I consider Wp/kum eligible, even if they missed a month. (It's summer, and most months they're fine.) Test is still a little stubby, though it's improving.

The single content page on Wp/kck is definitely Wikisource material—look at the talk page. Can you set it up over there? Then we'll delete here.

On the other hand, Wp/krl, though active enough over a period of time, is mostly stubs and empty page shells—and the translation on TWN is not even close. I suspect what happened here is that it was a side project for people mostly working on Wp/olo, and when that was approved and spun off, people left Incubator instead of working on Wp/krl. StevenJ81 (talk) 18:56, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

@Wn/li: I'm currently not convinced of its activity yet. Although it is currently the most active Limburgish project I've ever seen on Incubator, the activity is not consistent enough yet. Of course, I will remain as involved with the project as I currently am as long as there are other contributors. And that's the main reason I'd like to wait for a month or two, just to check whether they stay active.

@Wb/map-bms: That one didn't require a deletion nomination, it seems to have slipped by. The main page was a literal copy which missed templates (so junk), and the other was spam.

@Wp/lew: As the pages aren't broken, I see no reason to delete it. That test doesn't qualify for eligibility for a long time.

@Wp/liv: I don't think it is our task to track down former editors. If they are really interested in the project, new contributors will return and it is up to them to reactivate the test.

@Wp/kum: I agree. Even though many pages are stubs, the test is exceptionally well-sourced. That is always a positive sign to me.

Can you please undelete the pages that you deleted at Wp/gaa? People were about to create pages there and they are wondering where they are. There's also activity around this language in translatewiki. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:03, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Done. The main reason for deletion was that all contents is in English. We no longer accept "welcoming" Main Pages in English. Please make sure the page is moved to a correct native name and translated into Ga. Otherwise, I will have to delete it again. --OWTB (talk) 15:27, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

I'm going ahead and approving this morning. But you might wish to put together a logo. StevenJ81 (talk) 13:46, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

I have placed a request at Commons. --OWTB (talk) 14:01, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

StevenJ81: Hi, the logo can be found here. I added it to the request page, as well as a message on Phabricator. --OWTB (talk) 08:12, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of it. Now ... as you are well aware ... we wait ... (They're volunteers, too. I know.) StevenJ81 (talk) 14:13, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Sure, I already posted a message in the Pub that it might take a while. I also read they are going to do an update first on the 10th. We're not in a hurry :) --OWTB (talk) 14:16, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

That's because you are an experienced hand here. You've probably noticed that people get very excited about—and very impatient about—some new projects, especially when they're first in a new Wikimedia language. I just try to keep people's expectations reasonable. And then when they complain anyway, I tell them it's "not my department". (;-) StevenJ81 (talk) 14:28, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I think I was pretty horrible too when it came to the first approved Limburgish project :) --OWTB (talk) 14:40, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

The last of the Jewish holiday cycle is tonight through Tuesday night. After that I will import {{Test wiki}}. Once I do, I think we can start importing a couple of tests. Did you ever hear from Robin? StevenJ81 (talk) 15:15, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

He said he doesn't have a lot of time, but he was willing to help. Haven't heard of from him since. --OWTB (talk) 10:26, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

("heard of" is closer to "heard about": someone/something you are aware of)

Can't help that, I guess. We'll do our best in the meantime. StevenJ81 (talk) 13:30, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the correction :P

I might send him a reminder, but he also indicated he created it a long time ago, so if we find anyone else who is good at code, that can work too. --OWTB (talk) 13:45, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Glad to help! (;-) I find verb + preposition constructions one of the most idiomatic pieces of languages. And that's before one realizes that "of" and "from" are the same preposition in a lot of languages ... StevenJ81 (talk) 14:04, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

I propose you bring this to the Incubator:Community Portal. I am not very technical, especially when it comes to relatively recent and complicated templates. --OWTB (talk) 10:00, 22 November 2018 (UTC)